Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Son beats dad in pit spitting contest EAU CLAIRE, Mich., July 7 (UPI) -- Brian "Young Gun" Krause bested his father Rick "Pellet Gun" Krause to win this weekend's International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship in Michigan. Advertisement Competitors exercised their best spitting skills Saturday at the 35th International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship at Tree-Mendus Fruit Farm in Eau Claire, Mich., the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune reported. Brian Krause, 30, of Dimondale, Mich., beat his father, Rick Krause, 54, of Yuba City, Ariz., by 6 1/2 inches. "Young Gun's" winning spit was 56 feet, 7 1/2, the Tribune said. Combined, the father and son have won the pit-spitting crown 20 of the 35 years it has been awarded. Amanda Jennings, 18, from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, said it was "cool" to win in the women's division for the second consecutive year. This year, she took the crown with a 43-foot, 11-inch spit, the newspaper said. Advertisement Thief makes off with $40,000 in bananas NEW YORK, July 7 (UPI) -- A Delaware police officer said "a whole lot of potassium" is missing after someone stole two trailers carrying $40,000 worth of bananas. The trailers were found in the Bronx borough of New York Saturday but the bananas were mysteriously absent, the New York Post reported. "Someone's got a whole lot of potassium," Delaware State Police Cpl. Jeffrey Whitmarsh said. Whitmarsh said the banana trailers went missing Thursday and New York police discovered them unattended along the road. Frozen 'hands' prove to be animal gonads FORT WORTH, Texas, July 7 (UPI) -- The new owner of a Texas apartment called police when he found what appeared to be human hands in the freezer -- only to learn they were animal testicles. Patrick McCusker of Fort Worth stumbled across the items Friday while he was cleaning out the freezer, The Dallas Morning News reported. Roger Metcalf of the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office said the objects did indeed look like hands, especially since they had been placed inside a plastic surgeon's glove. "You couldn't tell what they were until you got the things open," he said. Metcalf said the objects are now outside the Medical Examiner's jurisdiction. The office will not determine what type of animal the testicles belonged to. Advertisement A maintenance man told the newspaper the previous owners of the apartment once killed a wild pig. Balloon man floats 235 miles in lawn chair CAMBRIDGE, Idaho, July 7 (UPI) -- An Oregon man landed safely in Idaho after floating 235 miles at 10,000 feet above the ground in a chair attached to a cluster of balloons, onlookers say. Kent Couch, 48, of Bend landed near Cambridge, Idaho, Saturday after floating about 235 miles in a lawn chair suspended by 160 large helium-filled balloons, The (Portland) Oregonian reported. "A customer said, 'Oh, it's the balloon man, it's the balloon man.' So we ran outside," said Laurene Houghton, owner of the Cambridge City Market. This was the third time the gas station owner tried floating from Bend to Idaho in a chair tied to balloons, the newspaper said. Couch said his flights aren't "that dangerous" but he took a parachute and satellite phone just to be on the safe side.
